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And many good lines: " as if // life equal limbs that bend"; "toys breath when / we touch them, and then // lose consciousness/away from our hands"; We repeal // their existence when we need /to"; "Toys and stuffed animals feed // our first experiments in truth/and desire"; "The racket // of our own loneliness is loud."

I also laughed at your line about Barbie: "I could not reconcile her brand / with who she was...."

So interesting that you got confused about the brand vs name. I think I embraced both without question. I'll never forget my first Nurse Barbie I got when I was four, in the hospital recovering from a tonsillectomy. I was one with that doll.